The Nexus ArchiveCharacters
The philosophers, novelists, statesmen, scientists, and witnesses of the great works. Each Character Card opens their ideas, era, and where to start reading.
Available characters
- Douglass The Orator of Freedom
- Marcus Aurelius The Philosopher Emperor
- Socrates The Questioner
- Washington The Republic's First Example
Locked Character Cards
- Adam Smith The Philosopher of Exchange
- Alexander the Great The Macedonian Conqueror
- Aquinas The Scholastic Architect
- Aristotle The Architect of Causes
- Baum The Cartographer of Oz
- Caesar The Historian of Conquest
- Charlotte Brontë The Voice Against Confinement
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Critic of the Sickroom
- Cicero The Last Republican
- Confucius The Teacher of Ritual
- Dante The Pilgrim of Judgment
- Darwin The Naturalist of Deep Time
- Dickens The Conscience of the City
- Dostoevsky The Underground Prophet
- Dumas The Master of Adventure
- Einstein The Mapper of Spacetime
- Emerson The Voice of Self-Reliance
- Epictetus The Slave Who Was Free
- Epicurus The Philosopher of a Quiet Life
- Euripides The Unsettler of the Stage
- Fitzgerald The Chronicler of Reinvention
- Freud The Excavator of the Unconscious
- Friedrich Engels The Organizer of Class Struggle
- Galileo The Witness of the Telescope
- George Eliot The Moral Cartographer
- Harriet Beecher Stowe The Novelist of Abolition
- Harriet Jacobs The Hidden Witness
- Henry James The Analyst of Appearances
- Herodotus The Keeper of Memory
- Homer The Singer of Heroes
- Ida Wells The Keeper of the Red Record
- Jane Austen The Anatomist of Manners
- Jefferson The Paradox of Liberty
- Jesus The Teacher of the Kingdom
- John Adams The Honest Pessimist
- John Locke The Philosopher of Consent
- John Milton The Poet of Rebellion and Fall
- John Stuart Mill The Guardian of the Individual
- Kant The Judge of Reason
- Laozi The Keeper of the Way
- Larsen The Novelist of the Color Line
- Lincoln The Union's Moral Witness
- London The Novelist of the Wild
- Margaret Cavendish The Sovereign of Imagination
- Mark Twain The Voice of the River
- Marx The Anatomist of Capital
- Mary Shelley The Maker's Witness
- Melville The Sea's Metaphysician
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Novelist of Buried Guilt
- Newton The Analyst of Light
- Nietzsche The Hammer
- Pascal The Mathematician of the Heart
- Paul The Apostle to the Nations
- Plato The Architect of Ideals
- Plutarch The Judge of Character
- Rousseau The Champion of Natural Man
- Sojourner Truth The Voice of Liberation
- Sophocles The Judge of Fate
- Sun Tzu The Strategist of Deception
- The Buddha The Physician of Suffering
- Thomas Hobbes The Philosopher of Fear
- Thomas Paine The Revolutionary Pamphleteer
- Thoreau The Experimenter at Walden
- Thucydides The Realist of War
- Virgil The Poet of Empire and Exile
- Voltaire The Satirist of Optimism
- W. E. B. Du Bois The Prophet of the Color Line
- Wilde The Dramatist of the Mask
- Wollstonecraft The Defender of Women's Reason